Rethinking European Welfare: Transformations of European Social Policy

by Janet Fink (Editor), Gail Lewis (Editor), John H. Clarke (Editor)

Overview

Rethinking European Welfare provides a wide-ranging and innovative rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers new ways of analyzing European welfare and its future.

Whilst acknowledging the importance of research and analysis of policy making in Europe, this Reader addresses a range of other challenging and provoking issues which have been marginalized or ignored in the study of European social policy.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761972785
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/25/2001
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

CONTRIBUTORS ARE ALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY EXCEPT:

Avtar Brah Birbeck College, University of London

Ray Hudson University of Durham

Eleonore Kofman Nottingham Trent University

Lila Leontidou University of the Aegean

Phil Marfleet University of East London

António Nóvoa University of Lisbon

Diane Sainsbury University of Stockholm

Rosemary Sales Middlesex University

Yasemin Soysal University of Essex

Allan M Williams University of Exeter

Fiona Williams University of Leeds

Table of Contents

Introduction - Jant Fink, Gail Lewis and John Clarke
PART ONE: UNSETTLING BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS
Re-Shaping Europe - Ray Hudson and Allan M Williams
The Challenge of New Divisions within Homogenized Political-economic Space
Changing Citizenship in Europe - Yasmin N Soysal
Remarks on Postnational Members and the National State
Europe's Civilizing Mission - Phil Marfleet
Migrant Women and Exclusion in Europe - Eleonore Kofman and Rosemary Sales
PART TWO: UNSETTLING CATEGORIES AND METHODS
Gendering Dimensions of Welfare States - Diane Sainsbury
Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Class in Welfare States - Fiona Williams
A Framework for Comparative Analysis
Silences, Absences and Elisions in Analyses of ‘The Family' in European Social Policy - Janet Fink
Cultural Analyses of the Informal Sphere - Prue Chamberlayne
PART THREE: UNSETTLING SPACE, PLACE AND LOCALITY
Re-Framing Europe - Avtar Brah
Gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe
Boundaries of Social Exclusion in Europe - Lila Leontidou and Alex Afouxenidis
The Restructuring of the European Educational Space - Ant[ac]onio N[ac]ovoa
Changing Relationships Among States, Citizens and Educational Communites
Drugs, Drug Culture and European Governance - Karim Murji and Eugene Mc Laughlin

Editorial Reviews

‘This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU's inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries' - Political Studies

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